sguy78 on 15 April 2010
| PhoenixKing said: Because they didn't act when they should have or show any sympathy to their own citizens. 1.) It gives the image of compassion to the American people. Which may even raise approval ratings like President Kennedy's admittance to the failure of the Bay of Pigs and taking blame for it. 2.) Secrutary of State Rice didn't take the information of the two Al Qaeda hijackers that were discovered by Tenet on alert to the necessary cabinets that should have been notified and would have been had Rice done her job correctly. 3.) The Bush Administration on a whole was extremely negligent regarding Al Qaeda's activities prior to 9/11/2001. Several months went by with no measures taken in preventing or stopping their activities. Clarke, who was head of counterterrorism under Clinton and had been working in the White House since Reagan's time, was ignored despite doing his utmost in trying to alert the Bush Administration on the dangers of Al Qaeda. To be frank, Al Qaeda wasn't some new organization that mysteriously made itself known on 9/11/2001. They had declared war on America in 1996, were responsible for the Twin Tower parking lot bombings, and several other events around the world. |
Are you really so anti-Bush, that you are going to blame 9/11 on him 9 months into his presidency? Give me a break. Also, the UN blocked going into Iraq because of a veto vote by France, which we found out was milking money illegally to Saddam via the food for oil program, and were tying to cover it up. With all due respect, Saddam was a murdering psychopath, and I'm glad he's gone.
